---
type: "Bill"
title: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
description: "A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration."
jurisdiction: "us/states/in"
legislature: "Indiana General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 1031"
citation: "Indiana HB 1031 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE", "DEPARTMENT OF (DLGF)", "AUDITS AND AUDITORS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Harold Slager", "Mike Bohacek", "Rick Niemeyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-04"
last_action: "2017-04-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4febbfbb-b762-4607-9394-cc9528f696a9"
source_url: "http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2017/bills/house/1031"
source_hash: "70f00abb9ebfe40fe67514d8185327fa6bd291d5af6f4df8f7b753076d3f71d1"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-in"]
---

# Indiana HB 1031 (2017) — A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state and local administration.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.04.enrs)
2. **House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.03.coms)
3. **House Bill (S)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.02.comh)
4. **Introduced House Bill (H)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://in-proxy.openstates.org/2017/bills/hb1031/versions/hb1031.01.intr)

## Votes

- HB 1031 - Slager - 3rd Reading — **95–3** (pass) · legislature
- HB 1031 - Niemeyer - 3rd Reading — **50–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Harold Slager — primary (person)
- Mike Bohacek — primary (person)
- Rick Niemeyer — primary (person)
- Brandt Hershman — cosponsor (person)
- Ed Charbonneau — cosponsor (person)
- Edward DeLaney — coauthor (person)
- Julie Olthoff — coauthor (person)
- Lonnie Randolph — cosponsor (person)
- Milo Smith — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-04** Authored by Representative Slager
- **2017-01-04** First reading: referred to Committee on Government and Regulatory Reform `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-01-24** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-01-26** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-01-30** Representative Olthoff added as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 26: yeas 95, nays 3 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-30** Senate sponsor: Senator Niemeyer
- **2017-01-30** Representative Smith, M. added as coauthor
- **2017-01-30** Representative DeLaney added as coauthor
- **2017-01-31** Referred to the Senate
- **2017-02-20** First reading: referred to Committee on Commerce and Technology `reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-06** Senator Hershman added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-14** Pursuant to Senate Rule 68(b); reassigned to Committee on Tax and Fiscal Policy `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** Committee report: amend do pass, adopted `committee-passage`
- **2017-03-21** Senator Charbonneau added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-21** Senator Randolph added as cosponsor
- **2017-03-27** Second reading: ordered engrossed `reading-2`
- **2017-03-28** Third reading: passed; Roll Call 299: yeas 50, nays 0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-28** Senator Bohacek added as second sponsor
- **2017-03-29** Returned to the House with amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-06** Motion to dissent filed
- **2017-04-06** House dissented from Senate amendments `amendment-failure`
- **2017-04-10** Senate conferees appointed: Niemeyer and Stoops
- **2017-04-10** Senate advisors appointed: Hershman, Lanane and Sandlin
- **2017-04-10** House conferees appointed: Slager and Stemler
- **2017-04-10** House advisors appointed: Smith M, Olthoff and DeLaney
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the House
- **2017-04-19** Rules Suspended. Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the House; Roll Call 503: yeas 89, nays 2
- **2017-04-19** CCR # 1 filed in the Senate
- **2017-04-20** Conference Committee Report 1: adopted by the Senate; Roll Call 490: yeas 49, nays 0
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the Speaker
- **2017-04-21** Signed by the President Pro Tempore
- **2017-04-24** Signed by the President of the Senate
- **2017-04-25** Public Law 176
- **2017-04-25** Signed by the Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4febbfbb-b762-4607-9394-cc9528f696a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Indiana legislature records).